MINE EYES HAVE SEEN—WHOI scientist Peter Traykovski helped reveal how mines are buried by sand on the seafloor, using a rotary sidescan sonar that continuously monitored the process. This sonar image shows a partially buried mine (below) and the seafloor node that supplies power to the sonar. (Courtesy of Stan Locker and Brian Donahue, University of South Florida, and Mike Richardson, Naval Research Laboratory)[back]
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